Architecture committee/2016-07-27

The TechCom planning meeting is a weekly invite-only video discussion, generally held on Wednesday 13:00 USA Pacific Time.
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)

Agenda timeline

• Intro
  • Agenda bashing and action item check 21:00 (5 minutes)
  • Review last week's RfC office hour 21:05 (5 minutes)
• RFC status update
  • RfC inbox triage 21:10 (10 minutes)
  • Shepherd assignments 21:20 (5 minutes)
  • Queue for future RfC office hours 21:25 (5 minutes)
• Wrapup
  • Other business 21:30 (10 minutes)
  • Next week’s ArchCom agenda 21:40 (10 minutes)

Agenda details/Meeting summary

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Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

• Last week's ArchCom planning meeting (W29, E234)
• Review last week’s RfC office hour (E235)
  • T126641: [RFC] Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end

RFC status update

20 minutes (starting 21:10 UTC)

Spend roughly 20 minutes ensuring Architecture committee/Status is up-to-date. Checklist of the questions we should answer:

• Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting? E237
  • T128602: Create and deploy an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store
  • RobLa to chair
  • Field narrowing?  Potentially a candidate for “in progress”
• Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?
• For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
• Picking an RFC for next week:
  • Review the ArchCom-RfCs board
    • Where should anything in the inbox go?
    • Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?
  • Review the ArchCom-has-shepherd board and discuss each member's assignments/priorities:
    • Brion Vibber:
      • Status updated (a little backlogged, will continue with MCRevs updates): Architecture_committee/Status#Brion
    • Daniel Kinzler. (intermittent connectivity issues)
      • Blob storage layer for MCR
      • Jaime has been asking for DB layout experiments.
    • Gabriel Wicke:
      • Prototype work on T111588 with Timo: streaming content composition
      • Session storage & auth: T140813
    • Rob Lanphier:
      • Status is updated: Architecture committee/Status#RobLa
      • Security WG item (see Phab:Z411#6231 for context, see also T125132)
      • ACTION: Rob to figure out Security access for Daniel
      • ACTION: Tim: find wikitech-l post on captcha
    • Roan Kattouw.
    • Tim Starling:
      • Scott has mostly been working on Parsoid tasks
      • Deployment is slowly moving forward html5depurate
    • Timo Tijhof:
      • No update on old_image.  Will talk to Tim and Jaime
      • API driven front end.  continuing work on that; status page updated just now
      • CSP moved to “no activity”
  • Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
    • Change propagation?
    • T128351 (moving Echo notification framework to core)?
    • ACTION: Brion to comment on T128351 with alternatives
    • ACTION: Rob to announce T128351

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

• Security WG item (see Phab:Z411#6231 for context)
• Next week's ArchCom